I feel like making a rather bold (and to some extent, blasphemous) statement..... I feel like an Omniscient.... the all knowing wise one..... this term is usually associated with God... but he has generously agreed to lend that title to me on a short lease (I'm the one with the Midas touch today, remember?)
I claim that I know everything that is worth knowing.... and the things which I don't know, are not worth knowing anyway!... Now the question remains, how do I decide if the thing is worth knowing or not?... simple.... as I am the Omniscient, I know.....
After that faint smile on your face fades away.... think about my statement again.... as per my logic, aren't we all Omniscient?.... In all the days of all our lives, we decide, rather randomly, as to what we want to know and what we don't... we are all selectively permeable towards the external stimuli... Something that we don't know, doesn't concern us... the rising crude oil price means nothing as long as our petrol doesn't become dearer... Gold prices don't mean much till there is a wedding at home... tension in an adjacent country or a state is always someone else's problem, or is at best, just a passing remark or an opportunity to start a new discussion....
We all live in our private omniscience.... a private world of knowledge and ignorance... we never give much credit to what we know, we don't give a damn for what we don't.... In the truest sense of the word, we live a dangerous life... just imagine, the summation of our combined knowledge as a race, is so minuscule in comparison to the vast tracts of ignorance lying beyond the realms... Let us understand what we know so that we realize what we don't... but till then, its all about surviving this omniscience.
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